Azienda agricola Ciro Menozzi Cascina Marianna Landriano (PV)
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Summary
- country: IT
- Offered by: UNIMI
- Service(s) using this infrastructure: Upon request
Description
The Menozzi farm is located in Landriano, in the province of Pavia. With a free housing with bunks are raised 200 cows total heads of Italian Friesian breed, Jersey breed and red spotted breed that produce milk mainly intended for processing into Grana Padano PDO. There are also a small nucleus of cows for meat 16 heads of Piedmont breed.
52 hectares of agricultural land used (AA) from which hay and silage are produced for the feeding of cows. The main crop is silage maize and mash (26 hectares), followed by over 11 hectares of medicago sativa; 11 hectares of Italian ryegrass and 4 hectares of triticale for silage are also sown on the farm. In this company, research is conducted to develop methods that allow the reduction of pesticides, the decrease in the use of fertilizers and herbicides, and the conservation of water and energy. With the Life project and forage4Climate, cover crops grown in the fields to establish a vegetative defense against specific weeds, making the use of pesticides less necessary. In this farm, there are also two advanced systems of robotic milking integrated with the online milk analysis system that allows continuous monitoring of parameters to assess the health status of the animal